Seven-a-sides

I'm not exactly sure when we first put a team in the Hamlets Health Club seven-a-side leagues, on the all weather pitches, behind the main Champion Hill stadium, on the old Greendale playing fields. I know we didn't enter them straight away, but did so not too long afterwards, maybe a year or so. Which would be about fifteen years ago. The team is currently made up of a mix of Hamlet fans, and players who've been brought in to make up the numbers, but are 'veterans' of our sevens side. The leagues themselves are in four divisions, and consist of six teams per division, who you play twice over a ten week 'league season'. The top & bottom two swap places in each division. We are currently struggling in Monday Division Two, and face an uphill struggle to stay up. Over the years we have played in all four divisions!

We also have another 'affiliated' team on Wednesday evenings. While not strictly under 'The Rabblers' banner, they use our kit, and were formed by our stalwart Larry Marsh. Whilst our Monday side have at least half of our players being Hamlet regulars; the Wednesday outfit have about a quarter to a third of Hamlet fans in their side. I hope to take some snaps of their game tomorrow.

Last night we had a welcome, but rare, victory. Winning 3-1 against Bearded Women.
Yes really! You can get some strange names in the Sevens!



Left to right: Larry Marsh; Danny Harris; James O'Shaughnessy;
Joel Virgo; Steve Rickerby; Nikou Teymourian; Chris Wheeler.
(Front): Shaun Dooley; Rob Formisano; David Harris.















This was one of the hat-trick goals from Nikou!

Old photos:

You will often see me at one of our games with a basic, but adequate digital camera in hand.
The only 'slight problem' with this is that I don't own a computer at home, and have no way of loading them up onto the internet. Midway through 2005 I started up a general photoblog, when ex-Hamlet fan BT Jane uploaded them for me. But she had to stop doing this after a while. Since then I've still been taking snaps, but not so many, & Andy Tucker has been saving them onto discs for me. Unfortunately he too can no longer do this for me, so I am resorting to having to take only a few and getting them transferred to a disc down the local photo shop.
Sometime in the not too distant future (hopefully before the end of the year) I hope to have a home computer & will be able to learn how to do this myself. In the meantime I'm hoping Paul Griffin can help me upload some of my football snaps of you onto this blog.
My photoblog ran for about a year, & below there are links to ones I took in the past. I putting them up here because although some of you have viewed them before, you may not have all looked at them.
Enjoy! (or not!)

Summer 2007 Hamlet seven-a-sides(not sure of opponents)

Summer 2007 Hamlet seven-a-sides v. Dead Sheep

2005/06 IFA League away to Charlton Athletic Supporters'

2005/06 IFA Cup away v. Motley Crewe (Crewe Alexandra supporters')

2005/06 IFA League home v. Fulham Supporters' Club

2005/06 IFA Cup quarter final home v. Nottingham Forest supporters'

2005/06 IFA League home v. Accrington Stanley Bowles (QPR Supporters')

It might take a while, but this gives you a taster of how I hope this site will eventually evolve.
At an even later stage I hope to learn how to scan in and show you many of the ancient team photos of the team I have, on good old fashioned photos, some of whom I have no idea where they were taken, or who all the players in the line ups are!

Comments welcomed on them all!